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Meaning And Culture of Grand Theft Auto: Critical Essays

In the pantheon of gaming, few franchises can lay claim to the dark divinity of Grand Theft Auto. Comprising nine independent games and four distinct phases, it has become legendary for its brutal violence, gleeful amorality and enormous popularity. In Grand Theft Auto, moral opponents of video games have found perhaps their greatest asset yet.

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Grand Theft Auto V is such a huge game - it's a cultural touchstone, a technical marvel, a political satire, a driving game/shooting game/racing game, a persistent online world, a slice-of-life sim, and above all the space that contains all of those things. It's such a large, expansive game that I can find a million little details and touches to fall in love with - and a whole lot of stuff that does nothing but alienate me.

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Dear Editor, I am writing to you in response to an article I read in your newspaper, entitled ‘If the Devil had to invent a game it would be this’. I felt so compelled to reply because you are absolutely correct. Peter Hitchins points out that children who play the game will be immature and unable to cope with the ever expansive crime ridden universe of Grand Theft Auto – ‘When the buy it for their sons they can expect ballistic rage, stamping and sulking’. Moreover, I believe…

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Yes, it’s true: I dearly love the Grand Theft Auto (GTA) series of videogames. I have been playing them on PC since the demo of the first game, and they’re the only series that can get me to show up in stores on their release date. But I love them for more than the automobile mayhem and the top-notch storytelling: They’re among the most brilliant virtual experiences on the civilian market, and I have come to look forward to new GTAs as fondly as real-world trips to other cities. And that’s without counting the subversive satirical content, the ways the series meshes gameplay with storytelling, or the ramifications of the series free-form playing over the realism/gameplay balance.

It turns out that I’m hardly the only person to enjoy seriously thinking about GTA. I didn’t know about The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Auto before getting in by mail as a Christmas gift, but it quickly shot up to the top of my pile of books to read: A collection of 14 critical essays about the series and its relationship with contemporary society, it’s a book that could have been written just for me.

The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Auto: Critical Essays - Kindle edition by Nate Garrelts. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets.

I’m still amazed that despite a few years of GTA fandom, I still hadn’t learned about this book until recently. But that may be more a problem with my information sources (let’s just say that gaming blogs aren’t big on serious critical analysis) than with the book itself: The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Auto is a perfect choice for every GTA gamer with more than half a brain to bear on the issues raised by the games. As gaming become a bigger part of culture (keeping in mind that Grand Theft Auto IV‘s first week of release saw sales bigger than the opening weekend for The Dark Knight) and comments that culture more aggressively, there will be more and more of a place for critical analyses and serious thought about those games. GTA may be the first gaming series to earn that kind of attention, but there will be many more in the future.